For registration information, please check with your administrators, or call 916 228-2218.

Registration Fee: $15.00
Registration Deadline: June 28, 2002

Today's classrooms have students with very different ability levels, backgrounds, knowledge, skills, motivation, and language proficiency. The ongoing challenge for teachers is to differentiate or adapt instruction to respond to the diverse academic needs found in their mixed-ability classrooms.

This three- day series is designed to provide classroom teachers with practical and easy-to-use instructional strategies and techniques to help meet the needs of students of various ability levels. The workshops will be presented by a classroom teacher experienced with full inclusion, identified special education, "average" and gifted students, and will offer a variety of learning options designed to challenge and maximize the growth of all students.

Eileen Galarze has been a classroom teacher for twenty years, teaching a variety of grade levels and working with children of various ability levels—full inclusion, identified special education, "average" and gifted students. She has a teaching certificate in Bi-Lingual/Cross-Cultural Education; a Certificate in Gifted Education from the University of California, Riverside; and a Masters Degree in Educational Administration from California State University, San Bernardino.

A GATE Mentor for her district, Eileen was recognized by Central School District as the GATE Teacher of the Year in 1996 and 1998 and by the State of California as San Bernardino County Teacher of the Year 2000. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the California Association for the Gifted as an educator representative.

A passionate and enthusiastic presenter, Eileen has provided staff development to teachers on a broad range of topics, including teaching students with learning difficulties in the regular classroom, effective coaching strategies, math replacement units, and technology in the classroom. As an independent consultant and a cadre member of Education Consulting Service, she provides staff development on differentiated instruction for schools, districts, and parents throughout the country. She has been a speaker at the Illinois Gifted Conference, the Philadelphia Gifted Conference, and the California Association for the Gifted State Conference.